Çultural Writing. From judicial nominees to the environmental pillage, economic policy to health care, military aggression to civil liberties, the Democrats and Republicans have acted as a two-headed beast, pursuing the same policies, often underwritten by the same financial sponsors. Both parties insist that there are real differences that divide them. But after 12 years, of Clinton/Bush, those differences are harder than ever to detect. Only the rhetoric, backed by scare tactics, remains. In DIME'S WORTH OF DIFFERENCE, Cockburn and St. Claire, and a team of COUNTERPUNCH writers, blow away the rhetorical smog that has polluted our politics for the last few decades. This timely book calls on progressives to begin a new movement outside the death-embrace of the Democratic Party.